DUI alleged after pickup hits receptacle

A Carmi man was arrested on a preliminary DUI charge around 11:47 p.m. Thursday after police allegedly observed the pickup he was driving dragging a trash receptacle along a city street.

A Carmi man was arrested on a preliminary DUI charge around 11:47 p.m. Thursday after police allegedly observed the pickup he was driving dragging a trash receptacle along a city street.

A Carmi Police Department incident report identified the man as 26-year-old Nathan M. Williams. He was booked at the City-County Jail in Carmi where he later posted $100 cash and his driver's license as bail on the preliminary DUI charge and an additional citation for failing to give information after striking unattended property.

The report said an officer saw a red pickup traveling northbound on Seventh Street at a high rate of speed and noticed the pickup had a trash receptacle trapped beneath it and was dragging it along as the pickup continued on Seventh Street before turning on to Sycamore Street.

The officer began trying to catch up with the pickup but not before it made a series of turns and ended up in a vacant lot near Eighth and Maple streets.

The driver was identified as Williams in the report that alleged he failed field sobriety tests and his blood alcohol content registered .141 during booking.

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